And then you very cleverly summarised it as "he can't be dropped Crouchy, but he could be rested"... and that's exactly what has happened.

I said that KP was undroppable because of Team England's reluctance to man-manage his general unhappiness in cricket post-captaincy and post-injury. He is a confidence player and I averred that the England selectors wanted to use kid gloves when getting him back into form. I think they've actually handled the whole situation very, very well - including KP's outburst afterwards, which they must have expected to an extent.

I also said that Cook was undroppable because Team England like him, but I think we've been over that one.